supervised release

Fives Reject Supervised Release Condition Prohibiting Defendant From Living With Anyone Other Than a Spouse or Blood Relative

October 29, 2008 22:03

United States v. Woods, No. 07-51491 (5th Cir. Oct. 28, 2008) (per curiam) (King, Higginbotham, Wiener) Woods was convicted of crack and retaliation offenses. In addition to a prison sentence, the district court also imposed a five-year term of supervised release. The conditions of supervised...

Conditional Love

September 28, 2008 15:46

United States v. MacMillen, No. 07-3377-cr (2d Cir. September 23, 2008) (Hall, Livinston, CJJ, McMahon, DJ)MacMillen pled guilty to possessing child pornography, and the court sentenced him to seventy-eight months’ imprisonment and supervised release for life. On appeal, he complained about two of ...

Court Must Aggregate All Revocation Imprisonment Terms When Calculating Maximum Supervised Release Term Available Under § 3583(h)

September 09, 2008 00:38

United States v. Vera, No. 07-20516 (5th Cir. Sept. 8, 2008) (Garza, Dennis, Minaldi) When a district court revokes a defendant's supervised release and imposes a term of imprisonment, 18 U.S.C. § 3583(h) permits the court to impose an additional term of supervised release to be served following ...

Something Other than Prison

August 22, 2008 13:21

Something other than prison, or also know as Alternatives to Incarceration. The Sentencing Commission hosted a symposium on this topic last month, finally recognizing publicly that long prison sentences often do more damage than good -- higher recidivism rates, broken families, and ruined lives. ...

Case o' The Week: Better Late Than Never, OK in Santana

June 01, 2008 16:27

The Ninth zinged us. In a rare show of efficiency, we had the following Santana memo finished last Thursday. The Court, of course, then issued the important Giberson decision on Friday (blogged above). It pays to procrastinate. Here is the bonus Case o' The Week memo on Santana and a prisoner's...